Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I help people make the world better through quality software.

Managing state is arguably the hardest part of any application. It's why there are so many state management libraries available and more coming around every day (and even some built on top… Read →

Knowing how to test is great and important. I've created a LOT of content that teaches people the fundamentals of testing, how to configure tools, how to write tests for specific scenarios… Read →

The AHA Programming Principle stands for "Avoid Hasty Abstraction." I have specific feelings about how this applies to writing maintainable tests. Most of the tests that I've seen in the… Read →

DRY DRY (an acronym for "Don't Repeat Yourself") , is an old software principle that Wikipedia sums up like this: Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative… Read →

Some History About a year ago, I developed a new pattern for enhancing your React components called the state reducer pattern . I used it in downshift to enable an awesome API for people… Read →